Delurk!

I evidently missed Delurking Week 2007, which was way back in January. And there was a great little Delurking event last week, which I also missed on my blog, but participated in on a couple of other blogs.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the terms “Lurking” and “Delurking”, lurking is the act of stopping by someone’s blog and NOT leaving a comment. Delurking is the act of leaving a comment so that the author knows you’ve been hanging around reading all of the funny, sad, moving, emotional, hilarious, or downright nutty posts he or she has been writing.

Delurking is important because anyone with a blog knows “You comment, therefore I blog.” I mean really, while blogging is therapeutic in multiple ways, it’s the comments that keep us bloggers rolling. We’re always putting our most super-impressive thoughts (just nod and smile here) down in blog postings in hopes that you, the reader, will think we’re incredibly witty, insightful, earth-shatteringly intelligent, or just plain silly. When we watch our stats tick upward, but no comments happen, we doubt ourselves. We wonder if that last post was the stinkiest piece of writing we’ve ever done. It’s a downward spiral, with no hope of redemption really, unless you COMMENT.

I saw one blogger that had a list of rules in her sidebar. The most important rule was, “If thou readest, thou shalt comment.” Unless you are just aiming to be a complete idiot and are threatening my personal safety or that of my family… leave a COMMENT dangit! We all want you to agree, disagree, share your own story, link to some other interesting thing you read, point out another way to look at it, tell us that was the worst post ever, or whatever. You are part of the equation here, so we need your input. The rest of the folks reading this darn blog want to know your opinions, too.

So, while it’s not Delurking Week, or Delurking Day, it is Delurking Time on this blog.

Y’all come out of the woodwork, ya hear?